26 June 2010

Filling In Some Blanks

It’s been a hectic few weeks.  I think I’m going to have to just stop pretending that I’m going to come back and update regularly.  Simple as it is to write stuff here, I seem to be able to put it off forever.
To continue where I left off…
I ended up having to delete a good [...]

13 April 2010

Growing Pains…

A few days, or weeks, late as usual, I return with my head hanging kind of low to post a graph I’d rather keep to myself. Let’s get that out of the way first. Here’s my March results at 25NL.

As you can see, the month started out in a stellar downswing. Downswing being a euphemism [...]

24 March 2010

And so it begins…

I had my first session with El Nino yesterday. It begand with about 80-90 minutes of him watching me play on 4 tables, asking me why I did what I did, and making a few comments about ways I’d need to adjust. After that, I think we had about 40-50 minutes of pure discussion and [...]

22 March 2010

Put Me In the Game Coach!

So far I´ve been doing good, but not great with 25NL.  I´m winning, but not by much. Over about 40k hands I´m only hitting a win rate of about 1 BB/100 hands.
I understand that most of the trouble I´m having with the win rate is because I´m stuck in my nitty ways which worked so [...]

03 March 2010

February Results

A couple of days late, but here are my results for February, not including bonuses.
I started out the month trying to do a bit too much. I was 16-tabling 5NL and 10NL, which mostly turned out to be 5NL since it was nearly impossible to table select and avoid shortstacks at 10NL.
I played about 30,000 [...]

22 February 2010

Getting To The Big Two Five

So far this month has gone pretty well. II´m still winning at a good rate, and decided to try to maximize my earnings.
I started February playing 16 tables of 10NL as much as I could. After a few days I decided I had to mix mostly 10NL tables with some 5NL because it was just [...]

02 February 2010

Rising From The Ashes

As usual, it´s been too long since I wrote any kind of update here. Over the last month I´ve told myself I was going to write up an entry at least 4 or 5 times, but I never got to it. I didn´t get to it because I was playing a lot of poker, so [...]

23 November 2009

Accepting Failure, But Not Giving Up

There is something to be said for setting goals for yourself. There is also something to be said for accepting a failure to reach those goals.
It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything here. I have thought a lot about giving up poker. I also thought about just letting this blog become one of [...]

17 July 2009

Getting Accustomed To Full Tilt

When I decided to move up to 25NL, I also decided to try to move over to Full Tilt Poker to take advantage of rakeback and their $600 first-time deposit bonus. I did not like what I found at all.
My first experience with Full Tilt was absolutely horrible. I was incredibly used to the PokerStars [...]

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13 July 2009

Third Time Is The Charm

Wow…It’s been entirely too long since I made an update here.
For a little over a month now I’ve been fighting with 25NL. So far, it’s kicked my ass twice. I started out winning for a few sessions, then hit a bad streak, started questioning myself, and things went bad. I moved back to 10NL for [...]